Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl

Although he shouldn't have, Chen Ying still wanted to laugh.

He knew Jinya was angry. How should he put it—the cry of the lynx was in such stark contrast to its domineering appearance that he couldn't help but find it amusing.

Fortunately, he managed to hold it back and even managed to maintain a serious face when Jinya looked down at him.

The clouded leopard, attracted by the noise, had intended to mock Jinya but immediately sensed that something was off.

After learning what had happened from Jinya, the clouded leopard's mouth twitched, revealing a fierce and wild air.

"I'll go notify my own kind; I smelled them near the water. There's the scent of one of my kind."

"Be careful on your own. Those people are habitual offenders, not the ordinary folks you often encounter."

"Don't worry, I know." The clouded leopard leaped up into the trees and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Little Jin nuzzled Jinya's cheek, "I'm also going to find my kind. You stay with the two-legged beast, otherwise I won't have peace of mind."

Jinya understood that it was no doing following Little Jin-its kind certainly didn't like it getting too close.

After leaving Jinya and the two-legged beast, Little Jin traversed the forest with great caution.

Its frame was slender and movements light, so much so that not even a leaf was disturbed as it hopped along.

Suddenly, Little Jin stopped in its tracks, crouched down, and perfectly camouflaged itself.

Ahead, under a tree on the forest floor, two two-legged beasts clad in strange pelts lay on the ground.

Here was a naturally shallow gully that, with a bit of disguise, was impossible to notice without close inspection.

These people probably hadn't realized that by stopping at the Forest Emergency Station briefly, they had acquired a complex mixture of scents.

The most prominent was the marking scent left by Little Jin.

Due to that dominant male causing trouble recently, Little Jin, instinctively marking its territory, had intensified the scent marking at the Emergency Station.

Great Bai and Jiaojiao initially found it uncomfortable, but knowing it was beyond Little Jin's control, they didn't complain and even took the initiative to lead the youngsters out to hunt.

Hidden high in the tree, Little Jin observed the two two-legged beasts calmly and rationally.

Seeing they did not stand up, it glanced left and right and then silently bypassed the place.

Beyond Old Bear Gully, a little further into the deeper woods, was the territory of another golden cat.

That cat had a much more volatile temperament; it had even fought with Little Jin once before. Although it hadn't won, Little Jin hadn't gotten off easy either.

This time, luckily full and asleep, the big golden cat bristled at Little Jin's approach, charging out to confront the intruder.

"Stop, I'm not here to fight you. There are bad two-legged beasts trying to kill us."

The big golden cat looked at Little Jin with skepticism.

Little Jin tilted its head, "Here, let me show you. But you'll need to be cautious; these two-legged beasts are dangerous, they'll kill us and skin us to trade for food."

Half-believing, half-doubting, the big golden cat followed Little Jin to where those two humans had been lying in ambush.

(Big Gold)

Their vision was quite keen, and from a distance, they noticed another person had joined the pit.

What? There are two-legged beasts that grow in pits?

Little Jin inhaled subconsciously but didn't smell anything.

The scent wouldn't carry over such a distance.

The big golden cat watched for a while before asking Little Jin, "So, what's your plan now?"

Perched in the tree, Little Jin didn't respond and stared at the few successfully disguised humans for quite some time.

"Shall we drive them away?"

"Just the two of us?" Big Gold's gaze sharpened, "You're not trying to trick me, are you?"

"What would I gain from deceiving you? Just say it, are you in or not?"

True to his name, "Young Tiger," his courage was indeed extraordinary.

Young Tiger, with a capital Y! It would be utterly against nature for him to refuse.

Just as Little Jin was about to make a move, Little Owl Mother flew over.

She was also quite clever and didn't fly to the tree where Little Jin and Big Gold were hiding but to a diagonal position from them.

Those two-legged beasts couldn't understand the language of animals and birds anyway, so Little Owl Mother didn't bother to hide at all and directly shouted loudly, "The two-legged beasts are telling you to wait, he has called for backup."

Little Jin sniffed quietly; a familiar scent drifted with the wind.

The first thing that came to mind was that family of four.

Hadn't the male been in a foul mood recently, and they went out to clear their heads? Were they hurrying back now?

As the scent grew stronger, Little Jin's sharp eyes could make out the beautiful fur pattern of Leopard Sister that appeared and disappeared.

The few individuals hiding had noticed too, one of them slightly lifting their body as if to verify something.

He had an odd contraption in his hand, unseen before, but it felt no good.

Little Jin sneaked along the tree trunk, drawing nearer quietly.

They say felines are liquid animals, and typically, Little Jin exuded a tough-guy aura, but his fluidity now in camouflaging was outrageous.

Big Gold was shocked and stiff; could this really be a skill their Golden Cat kind could master?

Fortunately, the approach of Leopard Sister's family of four left those three guys no room to worry about it.

Just when Little Jin and Big Gold were preparing to attack from above, another bird flew by to see what was happening.

"What are you all playing? When did that strange thing grow on the tree over there?"

Little Jin's claws gripped the tree firmly, stopping his plunging motion.

Following the direction pointed out by the newcomer, Little Owl, he saw something weird clinging to the tree on the other side, like a clump of mold on the trunk.

"Go check it out, see if it's a two-legged beast. If it is, give a few loud calls, and I'll tell my two-legged beast to give you something tasty in return."

The little bird chirped a few times, agreeing to the deal.

There were many little birds in the forest, and the man in the tree focused his attention on the ground, giving the little bird that suddenly appeared in front of him only a glance before ignoring it.

The little bird hopped closer, curiously scrutinizing this wrapped-in-strange things, two-legged beast?

"You three, be careful," one of them said. "There might be wild animals passing by, don't provoke them. When it gets dark, we can make our move."

Among the three on the ground, two spoke in a foreign language, sounding somewhat strange.

Especially the young man, whose eyes brimmed with irritability.

Another man, who would disappear without a ripple if thrown into a crowd, gave him an indifferent look, said something, and the young man bowed his head, no longer daring to utter a word.

The little bird couldn't understand them, but it was certain this man's face resembled those two-legged beasts in the forest, so it called sweetly several times before finally taking wing.

"Turns out there's a two-legged beast over there too." Little Jin scratched the tree bark quietly, his claws itching for action, "I'll circle around to that one; you follow and check on those few below later."

"No, I'll go for that one; you go down."

As Big Gold spoke, he circled around from another direction and slowly approached the man in the tree.

Little Jin glanced over, then withdrew his gaze, and at this moment, Leopard Sister's family also came into Little Jin's line of sight.

As Little Jin leaped from the tree, he let out a sharp cry.

The Golden Cat's voice might not be loud, but Leopard's hearing was also sharp.

They were familiar with Little Jin's voice, and at the moment they heard the cry, the four leopards quickly scattered.

In Brother Leopard's previous position, a tranquilizer dart was stuck deep into the ground.

Brother Leopard, seething with rage, leaped forward and, in mid-leap, twisted his body to dodge another tranquilizer dart.

At that moment, Little Jin, dropping from the sky, fiercely clawed the back of the young man's neck, and a scream echoed through the forest.